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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14
WORD 70 DEMOCRATIC
PROHTBTTTONTSTiS

Directly conference Of Prohibitionists
of Stanton and Augusta nominated a
legislative ticket-Messrs. Fultz and Ly
we told the Democratic Prohibitionists
what the result Of their supporting it
would be. That while they voted for Lyle
and Fultz, the colored Republican Prohi-
bitionists would vote the straight Repub-
lican ticket. Nobody could have seen the
packed colored galleries at the Court
House. Saturday, without compromising
that the cheering crowd there meant to
support the Republican ticket, even
though the ''broad temperance plank" SO
vainly pleaded for had been kicked over
board. The Democratic Prohibitlonist
who votes for Lyle and Fultz Simply
takes his vote from his own political party
to throw it away.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14

Gen. Roger A. Pryor, the counsel for
tie seven condemned Chicago Anarchists.
has paid Hon. John Randolph Tucker a
heavy retainer and engaged that dis
tinguished lawyers services in conducting
his clients appeal to the u S. Supreme
Court. Mr.. Tucker went to New York
and has commenced the reading of the re-
cord of the case, itself work of no
small magnitude, the record being several
thousand pages. The N. Y. 'Herald'
says the Anarchists there are very en-
thusiastic, as Mr.. Tucker is said to be
very favorably impressed with the case.
1t is rot likely, however, that Mr.. Tucker
has expressed any opinion, or will, unGil
he shall have read the record. The ground
of the Anarchists petition for the inter.
ference of the Federal Courts is that thew
have not had that fair trial in the Illinois
State courts which the Constitution of the
United States says every citizen must have.
The same plea, it will be remembered,
was mooted in the last days of the Cluve-
RUS case, but his counsel took no action
in that direction.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14
An OLD CUSTOM FROM A NEW
POINT OF VIEW.

Mr.. Yost, whose day it was to be shock
ed by everything that had been done by a
Democratic legislature, was borne down
last Saturday with the knowledge that a
Democratic Senate at Richmond had
turned the clock back at the closing hour
of the session and that something was
done some minutes otter IL O'Clock,
the sine die hour. Why that custom is as
old as the hills. Every legislative body
has done it for century. That staunch
old Republican, old man Bassett has
turned back the clock Of the U. S. Senate
for sixty years. and every Republican
President has signed bills in the time thus
given. In every legislative body that we
have ever known that has been the Gus
tom. Saturday was day of mares nests,
but we hardly expected such an egg as
this.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14
4 COLLECTOR FOR THE BRITISH
BONDHOLDERS.

The State OF Virginia is in mortal
struggle with her creditors. 1t is not
waged by her for the love Of money, but
because she cannot pay the money. 1t is an
actual. incontrovertible impossibility. No
man. not lunatic, thinks Virginia can
open the doors and let in 81 100000 in
paper coupons, and then have any money
to run her State government, asylums.
schools, Or anything else. She has tried to
compromise with her creditors. but what
of them she could find would not agree to
it; she has tried to pass laws TO keep back
this flood of coupons-a United States
Circuit Judge in defiance of the Eleventh
Amendment overrules them and impri-
sons her officers for attempting to execute
them. The struggle is deadly one, for
on the part Of Virginia it is for life itself.
at tits critical moment the Republicans
Of Augusta assemble and offer to the peo-
pie candidate for the legislature. Where
is e, this candidate ? Where does he
stand in this fight the State is making for
her life i? He stands with the creditors
and against Virginia! In this mortal
combat he is against the State. This is
grave charge and you ought to have
proof of its truth. Go to the County
Treasurer's book, and on the first page
containing the list of those who have been
paying their taxes by rendering coupons,
YOU will find the name Of Ben. j. Craig,
the Republican nominee. He rendered
them on the first ddu that coupons l1ere ten
dered after the passage of the RiddleberQer
bill. On May 6. 1886, he rendered coupons
for his taxes of 1856, and on November 7,
1886. made his second tender. Mr.. Craig
in this great strain of Virginia is collect
ing money from Virginia for the bond
holders instead of paying his money to the
State. To the bondholders he gives bread.
to his old mother State-a stone. And
the Republican nominee for the House of
Delegates for Augusta. The poor labcrer
pays his caritatlon tax, which goes to the
education of the children of the State, in
hard earned money; Mr.. Craig, the COM
fortably we'll Off land-holder pays his in
coupons.
But he appears in good Republican COM
pany On the Treasurer's books. Whose
name do you think is near hisI That Of
s. Brown Allen, one of the speakers at
the meeting and Chairman of the Com
mittee on Resolutions; that of DR.. Geo. T.
Robson who presided over it; and, written
under some of the tenders of coupons. is
rendered by W. E. Craig" There is your
orator on educating rich mems sOns"-
an attorney for aiding the bondholdels to
dismantle and wreck the State Of VIZ
ginia.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14
THE FIRST OFFERING OF RE.
PUBLICANS TO THE
FARMERS,

It has been many years since Demo-
cratic delegation went from Augusta to
the legislature that didn't have a farmer
in it. But liz the Mares Nest Convention
of last Saturday, the Hon. Jacob Y osG
handed out another egg in the discovery
chat the Farmer class had not had repre-
sentatlon. Thereupon they proceeded to
do what the Democrats have been doing
for years. and put farmer ON the ticket
farmer who tenders coupons for his
taxes. But the farming interest was as
tonished few minutes later to get an un-
expected BLACK eye. In August last a
Farmers Assembly was held here and res
buttons were adopted for protecting their
interests. One of these resolutions was one
offered by Mr.. Samuel M. Woods. Re-
publican, requiring all legislative candi-
dates to pledge themselves to advocate
this:
Second A law amending the law now on
the statute books in regard to railroad compa-
MES fencing their tracks, SO as to compel said
railroad companies to fence their tracks with
in a reasonable time.
On Saturday last Mr.. Woods offered a
resolution of the same import IN the Re-
publican nominating meeting, but its con-
sheraton was objected TO by Mr.. Y est On
the ground that the Committee on Reso-
buttons had made its report and was
functus otJcio Mr.. Noon, who is far
mer, held that the committee was still
there, that the meeting had not adjourned
and the resolution could easily be consld-
cred and reported on. Il Was all In vain.
Mr.. Yost was inexorable, the Chair
was as inexorable as Mr.. Yost, and the
only practical suggestion in the interest
Of farmers made in the whole meeting was
ehoked off. The great railroad corpora
lions must have chuckIed when they
heard OF the fasco.
Nj. Craig invited the people to Judge
US by our fruits" The farmers who live
on railroads will not forget to judge the
two Republican candidates by this speci-
men of the fruit the nominating meeting
bore.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14
THE RICHMOND PRIMARY,

Many Democratic heart in Virginia
was anxious about the Richmond Demo-
Gratis last week. and beat quicker when the
news came of their splendid Primary, at
which they polled 5000. And the same
Democratic hearts beat with indignation
at reading in the papers how the Reform
ers, .so-called, had spies at the polls to
''srS Democratic workingmen who
voted with their own party. We were all
proud to read of the big vote cast by those
same Democratic wage-workers, and the
defiant answer they gave the renegades
and Republicans who spotted them.
The ticket nominated gives general pleas
ure through the State, for A. S. Buford g
name is connected with progress and pros
perity in the Virginia mind and Henry L.
Carter, the Knight Of Labor, is to the
State party their ideal of Democratic
worklngman. The other two, Messrs.
Curtis and Tyler, are not so we'll known
as those we have named. In Richmond
the question was settled. that the Demo
cratic Knights of Labor are not less true
than any other class of the party, though
they are under constant siege by the Re-
publicans and made the subject of tempta-
tions other Democrats don't have to un-
dergo.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14
ARousIYg THE DEMOCR4Ts.

AS might have been expected, the i'm
prisonment of Virginia law officers in the
Richmond Jail by the Republican U. S.
Circuit Judge Bond, is arousing the Demo-
Gratis all over the State to the Importance
of defeating the Republican candidates
now before them. who hold the same ideas
of GENERALIZATION in government that char
acterize Judge Bonds construction of
the law. Perhaps the key note to the
feeling in the popular mind, will be found
in a card published by ex-Judge J. B. Nc
Cabe, the Attorney for the Commonwealth
of Loudoun county. He was elected Judge
of that county by the Readjuster legisla-
ture OF 10 80, and afterwards elected
Commonwealth Attorney by the people.
he has not affiliated with the the Demo-
Gratis, but says: thereafter 1 expect to
act with the party conceive to be for the
best interests of the State-and that is the
Democratic party In card published
in the Richn ond Dispatch" Wednesday
he says:
GAS I in the discharge of my sworn duty
have been brought SO unintentionally on
my part into public discussion, I desire to
state that I shall hereafter be found in the
ranks of the party that is opposed to cen
tralized government, party under whose
teachings it would be impossible to imprison
a sovereign State in the person of her duly
constituted officers.
''Very truly, J. B. MoCABE."
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14

ION the contrary, they nominated Dunlap and
Craig, and will labor to secure their election,
that they may vote for Malone for United States
Senator ''-Spectator
The Spectator has no authority for any such
statement. The Republican candidates for
the Legislature, should they be elected, will
go to Richmond entirely unpledged
Neither of them would have accepted the
nomination, unanimously given to them, had
any pledge been exacted of lhem- Vdzley
Viryiziaa.
But our esteemed Republican cotempo-
rary knows well that that isn't an answer to
the Spectator s suggestion. The Virginian
itself suggested, in order to get rid of the
Malone issue. which is the death of the
Republican party, that all Republican
nominees for the legislature should pledge
themselves if elected, not to enter eau
Gus On the Senatorial question. The two
nominees frog Augusta are in the field
without having given any such pledge.
Their nomination was urged ard endorsed
by such prominent and close friends of
Gen. Malone as Ex-Auditor Allen and
Ex-Collector VIM. E. Craig. 1t would be
stretching popular credulity to the break
ing point, to ask that it accept even the
suspicion that these gentlemen would have
endorsed candidates opposed to Malone
But it is not a matter hard TO settle-let
Messrs. Craig and Dunlap publish card
st&5ing their position in this matter-=it
will only take five lines Of nonpareil type
ana the VINDlCAToR will insert it free of
cost.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14

The s.hroad t,lank On Tapnnoronoo n

The ''broad plank on Temperance on
which all the Temperance people can
stand" was missing at the Republican
convention Saturday. Indeed, the whole
platform was missing. In default of one,
the committee re-af1irmed the National
Republican platform of three uears ago.
in which a Virginian would search in
vain for anything about the State debt,
Prohibition, or any other Of our State is
sues. How hard it was for the lawyers,
doctors, and editors that ran the body to
remem Der that the world moves; that the
Attorney General of the State is in jail
on the order Of a Federal Judge, and that
other State officers are On their way there;
that the question of the day for Virginia
now is the Eleventh Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States-and
many other things. The convention SIM
ply lodged the fire and ran into hole.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14

The Republican nominees for the House
Of Delegates were not asked to pledge
themselves not to enter Senatorial eau
Gus at Richmond. and aoere heartily en-
dorsed by Ex-Auditor Allen and Ex-
ollector Craig. That is a sufficient
guarantee that they will vote for Malone.
If not, the columns of this paper are open
to them for their denial. Messrs. Craig
and Dunlap you appeal to the people of
Augusta for their votes. A great majority
Of these people are opposed to William
Malone for next U. S. Senator. Will YOU
under any circumsta noes cast your vote
for him for that position if you are elect
ed ? The VINDICAToR's columns are
open to you, free of cost, to answer this
question with Yes or No.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14
Democratic Speaking in
Augusta.

Judge VIM. A. Hudson, Chairman OF
the Democratic County Committee. an
nounces that Hon. John Goode will ad-
dress the people of Augusta On next Court
Day, October oath. The people are invi-
ted to come en- masse.
The following appointments are an
nounced for tomorrow, Saturday, October
18th:
James Bumgardner. Jr., at Middlebrook
at P. M; Edward EchoIs at Newport.
at7P. M. and H. st. Geo. Tucker at
Fishersville, at P. M.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14

Col. S. Brown Allen has been too un-
fortunate in bis administration Of the
public affairs of the State, to attempt
to Instruct its people now. A Court of
Appeals, every member Of which is men,
Der of his own party, has decided that in
ignorance of the law he, as a member Of
the Board of Public Works, broke con-
tract of the State, which breaking has
cost it $50, 000-the Kendall bond printing
contract; and that in further ignorance of
the law he paid an illegal claim Of $4,000
on the State Treasury. Such costly and
ill-starred conductor of State affairs is not
a good monitor to point out the shortcom.
ings Of the Democracy. He does not
know notwithstanding to the decision of
the Court of Appeals.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14
BOURRONISM.


| Hon. Jacob Yost, at the Court House,
Saturday, was shocked that Edward
Echols should have voted in the legisla-
ture for local bill when there was no
quorum present. We will shock the con-
gresham from the 10th district with ad-
ditional particulars. Mr.. Echols not only
voted for the bill under those circumstan
ces, but, AS good fortune would have it,was
in the chair presiding at the time and gave
the bill that additional help. If he HADN'T
| he wouldn't have been it for either pre-
siding officer or member of the House
from Augusta. Mr.. Yost ought to know.
and will when he goes to Washington
that two. thirds of the local bills are pass
| ed in bodies in which no quorum is pres
ent. In the House of Representatives al
| Washington, even more than that proper
| ton may be said to be egislated on that
way. 1t is custom of u century stand
ing kept up by Republican and Democratic
bodies. and is perfectly cafe for if there lie
any opposition to the bill a single oppc-
nent has only to call attention to no quo
rum by demanding call of the House, and
that stops legislation. Ii Mr.. Yost ex
poets to do his State any service while IL
congress he had better begin posting HIM
self on legislation and its customs. Ii
he proposes to wait for quorum in the
House of Representatives to act on his
local bills he'll do very little for Virginia
while he is in Washington. While other
members are rushing their bills through,
Mr.. 7 ost will be seen in his seat with mis-
bill in his pocket. studying the Constitu-
ton and waiting for quorum. We had
| expected life in a young man like him,
| but it seems that the virus Of Bourbonism
has entered his blood. 1t is a great pity;
! he would make useful representative if
| he could make his peace with the Consti-
| tugional strict constitution, that bane of
both young and old Virginians In politics.
AS to the bill that was passed without
| quorum" to Mr.. Yost's horror, it was
bill for the people, and that settles it,
| The people of the town of Goodson, as we
learn the facts, wanted a certain railroad
and had voted two subscriptions to 1t.
| On one of them only three votes were cast
nBnlAoV ouO ouUoCl AptIuu. duu UUtu WcLS
carried by overwhelming popular MAORI
| ties. The bill was simply to legallz3
| those subscriptions which the people had
made, and the people had right to have
their wishes respected.
If Messrs. Craig and Dunlap want to
get out their party vote IN Augusta they
had better come out in card at oncs
repudiating Mr.. Y ost's quorum idea. An
| Augusta delegate with an important local
bill for the benefit Of Augusta would cut
a pretty figure in the House of Delegates
sitting sucking his fingers and waiting
for quorum" while other delegates
were rushing theirs through, and until
the Speaker had called sine die on him.
Will Bourbonism never die
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14
JUDGE BOND AND THE COMNON-
WEALTH.

Judge Bond has finally. in his usurpa-
ton of the control of affairs in Virginia,
taken the last step in his power. Now, it
is to be hoped the issue will be fully
before the U. S. Supreme Court. The
Judge is not following any decision of that
Court; that tribunal has not passed upon
the coupon crusher," for the enforce
ment of which State law he has commit
ted her officers to prison-that law has not
even been before the Supreme Court. He
is carrying out theory of his own, long
since laid down. that Virginia owes the
debt, and under the clause of the constitu-
tion prohibiting the impairlng of contracts
by a State, she can be made to pay it in
some way or other. He ignores the fact
that the Eleventh Amendment says:
''The judicial powers of the United States
shall not be construed to extend to any suit in
law or equity commenced or prosecuted
against one of the United States by citizens of
another State, or by citiz ems or subjects of
any foreign State.''
In reply to this Judge Bond put up the
oblu OfttoiOA uhsu piOSCCOluS ullC
officers of a State is not proceeding against
the State itself. He ignores and sets aside
Section 72O Of the U. S. Revised Statutes,
which says:
"The writ of injunction shall not be grant
ed by any court of the United States to stay
proceedings in any court of State, except in
cases where such injunctions may be author
lied by law relating to proceedings in bank
ruptcy."
In evasion of this Judge Bond claims
that it only applies to suits already COM
menced in State courts and not to suits
which are originated in his court.
These are thetwo points which it is hoped
to get decision Oh when Attorney Gen
eral Ayers and the others are gotten be-
fore the Supreme Court. It has been de-
cided by that tribunal that even in cases
of imprisonment for contempt by an in
ferior court, it has the right to examine
the proceedings in that court "as far as
may be necessary to ascertain whether
that court has exceeded its authority, y
and this will give full scope to the exami-
nation in the case of Judge Bond and the
Virginia officials.
The people in the meantime have duty
to perform at the polls having a much
closer connection with this seizure Of a
Commonwealth power from her, than
many Of them imagine, 1t is the centrallZa-
ton idea of the Republican party that
nests. matches, and breeds such construc
lions Of the law as in this instance are
being put forward by Republican Judge,
and it is all holding that idea, that patri-
otto Vir yinlans should defeas at the polls.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-14
MR.. CRAIG AND THE STATE AP-
POPULATIONS TO COLLEGES.

Ex-Collector Craig had good deal to
lature appropriating money to the Univer-
sity of Virginia and Virginia Military In
stitute, ''to educate rich mems sons.'' No
doubt by this time he is very sorry he said
it; he certainly is if anybody has called his
attention to the Appropriation bill of the
Republican legislature of Virginia in
1882. 1t is on pages 4S0. 4S1, 1872, 4s3 of
the Acts of Assembly for 1882. Let us
see what this Republican legislature ap-
propriated towards the education Of ''rich
mems sons.'' Here it is:
University of Virginia. 500. 900
Virginia Military Institute. ........ $4,000
Medical College of Virginia at Rich
mond, Ito make Doctors) ......... 1900
University of Virginia ............ 50, 800
Virginia Military Institute.......... $4,000
Medical College of Virginia. 1900
University of Virginia annual ap-
preparatory Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Virginia Military Institute, (includ-
ing back draft of '76) ..... 80, 600
Medical College of Virginia. ....... 1900
How does Mr.. Craig like these full
breasted appropriations of the peoples
money by a Republican legislature to
''educate rich mems sons"? Was there
ever such daring experiment made On
the supposed ignorance of an audience?
And yet it appears the speaker had not
estimated his audience inaccurately, for
they cheered him and howled just as if he
had found the Democracy doing something
the Republican party would scorn to do.
And what demagogery 1t all is after ALL
Nobody knows better than Mr.. Craig
certainly he ought to know it, that to
Virginia student the University of Vir-
ginia is free school,; that Virginia
student, whether ais father is rich or
poor, doesn't have to pay dollar of fees
there and only has to feed himself while
he is there. The whole course is free, ex-
cept Law, Medicine and Engineering,
where degrees are given. Every Virginia
student at the University has exactly the
same rights there that he has at his dis
trict school at home, or his graded school.
Both political parties of Virginia have
endorsed and kept up this system, and very
probably will fol long time to come.